United States History Pacing Guide
SCCSD
2015-2016
1st Nine Weeks
Week
Objective
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1b, 4a
Major Content/Topic
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Focus Questions
Course Introduction/Diagnostic
Reconstruction and its impact
What were the immediate and long-term effects of Reconstruction?
Unit: Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization and Westward Expansion
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4a, 4f, 5a, 5c
2a, 5a, 5c, 7a, 7c,
7d
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Manifest Destiny
Westward expansion
Transcontinental railroads
Native Americans/assimilation/reservations
Life on the Great Plains
How did the pressures of westward expansion impact Native Americans?
What economic and social factors changed the West after the Civil War?
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Industrialization
Rise of big business
Monopolies and trusts
“Robber Barons vs. Captains of Industry”
Immigration and urban life
Labor Unions/strikes
Political machines
Government regulation (laissez-faire)
Social Darwinism/Social Gospel
Technological developments/inventions
Plight of the farmer/Populist Movement
How did industrialization and new technology affect the economy and society?
How did big business shape the American economy in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
How did the rise of labor unions shape relations among workers, big business and government?
Why did immigrants come to the US and what impact did they have upon society?
What challenges did city dwellers face and how did they meet them?
What luxuries did cities offer the middle class?
Why did political structure change during the Gilded Age?
What led to the rise of the Populist movement and what effect did it have?
Unit: Imperialism
6
3a, 3b, 5a, 7c
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Imperialism
Spanish-American War
Territorial expansion /America as a colonial power
Why and how did the United States take a more active role in world affairs?
What were the causes and effects of the Spanish American War?
How did the United States extend its influence in Asia?
Unit: Progressivism
7-8
1a, 1b, 3a, 3b, 4a,
4b, 4c,5a, 6a, 6b,
7b,
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Progressivism/reforms
Muckrakers
Life for African Americans (North and South)
Great Migration
Teddy Roosevelt’s administration/Roosevelt Corollary
Why did many Americans call for reform?
What actions did the United States take to achieve its goals in Latin America?
What areas did Progressives think were in need of the greatest reform?
How did women of the Progressive Era make progress and win the right to vote?
What steps did minorities take to combat social problems and discrimination?
Cumulative Review &Nine Week Assessment
Unit dates are tentative.
United States History Pacing Guide
SCCSD
2015-2016
2nd Nine Weeks
Week
Objective
Major Content/Topic
Focus Question(s)
Unit: Progressivism
a, 1b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b,
4c,5a, 6a, 6b, 7b,
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Teddy Roosevelt’s administration/Roosevelt Corollary
United States involvement in Latin America
Taft’s administration/Dollar Diplomacy
New technologies and innovation
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Prohibition
Women’s suffrage
Nativist sentiments
Harding’s administration
Impact of new technology (e.g., automobile, radio)
Consumer spending/buying on credit
Harlem Renaissance
Fundamentalism/Scopes Trial
What were policies of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson?
Unit: Boom
4a, 4f, 7a,7b,7c
7d, 7e
2-3
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What social and cultural changes happened during this era?
What events led to the rise of nativism in the United States?
What was the impact of consumerism on the nation?
Why was did a clash of modernists and fundamentalists happen during this time?
What was the Harlem Renaissance and what impact did it have on African Americans?
Unit: Bust
4-5
2a, 2b, 2c, 5a, 5b,
5c, 1b, 1c, 6a, 4f,
7a, 7b, 7c
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Great Depression Causes
Political and Social Responses to Depression
FDR& New Deal
Effects of the New Deal
What were the causes of the Depression?
How did Hoover respond to the Depression?
What was life for Americans during the Depression?
What were Roosevelt’s 3Rs?
What were the programs of the New Deal? How well did the programs meet their goals?
What was the importance of deficit spending during the Depression?
Unit: Start of World War II and Life on the Home Front
6-8
1a, 1g, 1c, 1d, 2a,
3c, 4a, 4f, 6a, 6b,
6c, 7c, 7d
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Rise of dictators in Europe
Totalitarianism/Fascism, Nazism
Appeasement & Start of the war in Europe
U.S. Response/neutrality, lend-Lease Act
Pearl Harbor
Mobilization
Life on the home front
Role of women
What conditions led to the rise of dictators in European nations?
Why was appeasement a failure?
What were the causes of WWII?
What was the US position on WWII
What conditions drew the nation into WWII?
How did WWII change the life of women?
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Cumulative Review &Nine Week Assessment
Unit dates are tentative.
United States History Pacing Guide
SCCSD
2015-2016
3rd Nine Weeks
Week
Objective
Major Content/Topic
Focus Question(s)
Unit: World War II
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Fighting in European and Pacific Fronts
Manhattan Project/atomic bomb
Anti-Semitism/The Holocaust
Civil Rights during the war
Effects of the war
Establishment of the United Nations/NATO
Truman’s administration
Marshall Plan
3d, 3e, 3f, 7a, 7c,
1d,1c
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Beginnings of the Cold War
Korean War
Expansion of Communism
Vietnam intro
1b, 2a, 2c, 3c, 4e,
4c, 5b, 5c, 6a
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Baby Book
GI Bill of Rights
Interstate Highway Act
Sunbelt Migration
Mass culture and Consumerism/rock-n-roll
4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 1a,
1b, 6d, 7a
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Civil Rights Movement
Demanding Equality
The Movement Grows
New Frontier and the Great Society
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Women’s Right
Rights Revolution
Environmental Movement
1-2
1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2a,
3c, 3d, 3e, 4a, 7b,
7c, 7d, 7e
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What were key battles and events of WWII?
How did WWII impact civil rights for women and African Americans?
How did the war end and how did it lead to the Cold War?
Unit: The Cold War/Postwar America
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What was the Cold War (who was involved, competing ideologies)
What policies were put in place to contain communism?
What were the causes and effects of the Korean War?
What were “hot” areas during the Cold War? (Cuba, Vietnam, Middle East)
How did the fear of communism impact the civil liberties of Americans?
How did the nation experience recovery and economic prosperity following WWII?
What social policies were implemented in the nation?
What achievements were made by laborers?
What social and economic factors changed American life during the 1950s?
How did popular culture and family change during the 1950s?
Why were some groups of Americans dissatisfied with conditions in postwar America?
Unit: Protests, Challenges, and Change
6-8
7a, 7c, 7d, 1b, 1c,
2b, 4a, 4b, 4e, 4f
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What were the political, social, and economic conditions of African Americans
following WWII?
Who were the major leaders of the movement and what positions did they take?
What was the impact of Kennedy and Johnson on the movement?
What legislations and executive actions were implemented during the CR movement?
Who equalities were women seeking, who were the key leaders?
Why were the demands of other minority groups?
What legislations and actions were implemented as a result of protest movements?
Cumulative Review & Nine Week Assessment
Unit dates are tentative.
United States History Pacing Guide
SCCSD
2015-2016
4th Nine Weeks
Week
Objective
Major Content/Topic
Focus Question(s)
Unit: Nixon-Reagan
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1b,1c,2b,2c,3d, 3e,
3f,6a
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1a, 1b, 1d, 2c, 3e,
3f, 4f, 5b, 7d, 7e
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Nixon and Watergate
Iran Hostage Crisis
SALT
Camp David Accords
Conservative Movement
Reaganomics
What were foreign and domestic policies of Nixon?
What were foreign and domestic policies of Ford?
What were foreign and domestic policies of Carter?
What were foreign and domestic policies of Reagan?
Unit: Bush-Obama
3-6
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Computer and Technology Revolutions
Persian Gulf War
War in Iraq
War in Afghanistan
NAFTA
Welfare Reform
Patriot Act
Affordable Care Act
Diversity in America
What were foreign and domestic policies of
What were foreign and domestic policies of
What were foreign and domestic policies of
What were foreign and domestic policies of
Cumulative Review and SATP Preparation
Unit dates are tentative.
Bush?
Clinton?
Bush?
Obama?